Collection-wagon.



H. BAUMAN 81 I. TEiTELBAUM COLLECTION WAGON.

APPLICAI'ION FILED NOV.30,1914.

RENEWED APR. 5,1917.

Patenwd May 8, 1917.

WITNESSES w m H E M W ma 0 WW U 5W A e n WT my FO er Hub HERMAN BAUMAN AND ISRAEL TEITELBAUM, OF NEW YORK, 1 T Y.

COLLECTION-WAGON.

Application filed November 30, 1914, Serial No. 874,676.

T 0 all whom it may concern.

Be it known that we, Henna); QAUMAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, and ISRAEL TEI'IELBAUN, a subject of the Emperor of Austria, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of the Bronx, county of the Bronx, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful improvement in Collection-WVagons, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact de scription.

This invention relates to a collection wagon of that type in which ashes, garbage and other debris can be filled into the wagon without dust or odors escaping into the atmosphere, the Wagon having a cover designed in accordance with United States Letters Patent Number 841,711, granted to Jakob Ochsner, January 22, 1907, whereby the cover is provided with a receiving opening normally closed by a sliding cover and with which are adapted to cooperate covered garbage or ash cans of special design, whereby the engagement of the said can, when inverted, with the sliding cover, and the engagement of the can cover with a suitable part of the wagon body, will cause the opening of the sliding cover of the body top when the can is moved in a direction across the said body top for the purpose of cansing the can cover to be held stationary while the sliding cover opens to permit the contents of the can to discharge into the body of the wagon without the latter being open to the atmosphere.

The general objects of the present invention are to provide a wagon, motor truck or cart with which a body cover of the type described is employed, and at the same time the body is capable of tilting to dump the contents from the rear without the cover interfering.

More specifically, the objects of the invention are to provide a cover for the body and means whereby the cover will be automatically raised asthe body tilts in the act of dumping its contents, said cover-elevating means being so designed that the cover will be automatically restored to closed position by the body returning to its normal position.

With such objects in view, and others which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention comprises various novel Specification of Letters Patent.

Renewed April 5, 1917. Serial No. 159,982.

features of construction and arrangement of parts which will be set forth with particularity in the following description and claims appended hereto.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate one embodiment of the invention and wherein similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the views,

Figure 1 is a side View of the wagon, showing the body and cover in normal po sition by full lines and respectively in du1nping and raised position by dotted lines; and

Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section of the upper part of the body and cover with two receptacles applied to the cover.

Fig. 3 is a detail sectional View of part of the operating connection between the front of the cover and front of the body; and

Fig. 4t is a perspective view of the slide block which is connected with the cover and linked to the body to form part of the operating connections between the two.

Referring to the drawing, A designates the frame of the wagon, motor truck or other vehicle, such frame being of any approved construction and being supported by wheels 1 and 2. The body B may be made of sheet metal or any other suitable material and is of the rear dumping type by being mounted to tilt on journals 1 disposed in bearings 5 on the rear of the wagon frame A. The normal position of the body is shown by full lines while its extreme dumping position is shown by dotted lines.

The body B is open at the top but is provided with a removable cover C which is a unitary structure and extends the full length of the body at the top and the full width thereof. This cover is provided with a plurality of openings 6 that are normally closed by cover slides 7, which slides are adapted to be engaged by a can of special design, whereby sliding of the can to a position over the opening will automatically open the can and move the cover slide to open position to enable the contents of the can to be discharged into the wagon body without dust or odor arising, in accordance with the disclosure in the patent hereinbefore referred to. In order to enable the body 13 to dump its contents the cover C must be raised preliminary to the dumping out of the contents of the wagon body. According to the present invention this cover is adapted to be raised and lowered simultaneously with the movement of the body 13. The cover is elevated by two jointly acting devices D and E connected with the cover respectively at the front and adjacent the rear. The device D comprises a central link 8 pivot-ally connect ed with the body B at the center near the bottom of the front, and the upper end of this link is hingedly connected at 8 with a sliding block or equivalent traveler or shoe 8 which moves in a central vertical guide formed by oppositely disposed channel bars 9, as clearly shown in Fig. 3. A. bracket 8 is connected with this shoe S and is fastened to the front plate (2 of the cover C, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, so that the block 8" forms part of the operating connection D between the body and cover. This block 8 is provided with a handle 8, whereby the driver can dump the wagon by merely pulling upwardly on the handle, and the dumping movement of the body effects the lifting of the cover. The cover has an opening 10 through which the irons 9 extend. In addi tion to these channel guides 9 vertical standards 11 are employed, which pass through openings 12 in the front corners of the cover, and at these openings are fastened tubular guides 12 through which the standards 11 extend. These standards or guides 11 hold the cover against lateral or back and forth movement and confine the movement of the cover to a vertical line. As the body B tilts from the full to the dotted line position, the front end of the cover C is first raised by the link 8 to the full limit, and as the body continues to tilt, the link 8 swings until it finally reaches the position shown by dotted lines. The rear elevating devices for the cover comprise links 13 pivotally connected at 14k with brackets 15 attached to the sides of the cover, and these links have their forward ends hingedly connected at 16 with the upper extremities, of arms 17 which are connected with the journals 5, and extend through straps l8 fastened to the sides of the body B, so that as the body is tilted from normal position the arms 17 swing on their lower ends as centers by reason of the arms engaging with the straps 18. The upper ends of the arms travel in the arc of a circle and operate through the links 13 to raise the cover, said links moving from the full to the dotted-line position. By raising the cover in this manner it will be out of the way of the front end of the body as the latter tilts in dumping. When the body re turns to normal position the cover is automatically lowered and effectively closes the body so that dust and odor will not escape.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, the advantages of the construction and method of operation will be readily understood by those skilled in the art to which the invention appertains, and while we have described the principle of operation, t-0- gether with the apparatus which we now consider to be the best embodiment thereof, we desire to have it understood that the apparatus shown is merely illustrative and that such changes may be made when desired as are within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A vehicle of the class described comprising a wheel-supported frame, a pivoted rear dumping body mounted on the frame, a cover for the top of the body and having a vertical movement of translation, means on the frame for maintaining the cover in a horizontal position during its opening and closing movement, and means for bodily raising the cover off the body as the latter tilts from normal to dumping position.

2. A vehicle of the class described comprising a wheel-supported frame, a pivoted rear dumping body mounted on the frame, a cover for the top of the body, means for bodily raising the cover off the body as the latter tilts from normal to dumping posi tion, upright fixed guides on the frame, and means rigidly connected with the cover and slidable on and longitudinally of the guides for guiding the movement of the cover to and from the body as the latter swings to and from dumping position.

3. A vehicle of the class described comprising a wheel-supported frame, fixed guides at the front thereof, a rear dumping body mounted on the frame, a cover movable up and down at the top of the body, means connected with the cover and movable along the guides, link means between the front of the body and the said means for raising and lowering the front of the cover as the body moves to and from dumping position, and means connected with the rear portion of the cover and acted on by the said body to raise and lower the rear portion of the said cover as the body moves to and from dumping position.

i. A vehicle of the class described comprising a supporting frame, a pivotally mounted dumping body thereon, a cover for the body, and a plurality of operative connections between the body and cover for causing the latter to rise approximately the same distance at each end as thebody dumps,

one of said means including an operators handle for effecting the movement of the body and cover.

A vehicle of the class described comprising a supporting frame, a pivoted body thereon, a cover for the body, a guide on the frame, an element movable longitudinally of the guide and connected with the cover,

and a link connected with the said element and the body for causing slmultaneous movement of the body and cover.

6. A vehicle of the class described comprising a supporting frame, a pivoted rear dumping body thereon, a cover for the top of the body, a plurality of vertical guides on the frame for controlling the movement of the cover, a plurality of operating connections respectively between the front and rear portions of the body and cover, one of the operating connections including an element slidable along one of the guides, and a handle connected with said element.

'7. A vehicle of the class described comprising a wheel-supported frame, a swinging rear dumping body open at its top, a unitary cover for the top of the body, guide means fixed on the frame, means on the cover engaging the guide means, whereby the cover is confined to an up and down movement and prevented from having lateral or longitudinal movement, links pivotally connected with the front of the body and connected with the cover for raising and lowering the latter as the body moves, additional links connected with the cover, and arms connected with the links and movable with the body.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HERMAN BAUMAN. ISRAEL TEITELBAUM. \Vitnesses:

C. BRADWAY, PHILIP D. RoLm-IAUs.

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